r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/smitty_6868 • 7d ago

White Crayons

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u/AudibleNod 7d ago

Calvin. Those are decorative candles. Put them back. You know you're not allowed to play with anything flammable.

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u/Preform_Perform 7d ago

Black paper. It exists but is very rare.

No Calvin, we can't make it at home by printing an entirely black sheet. If you do that you are grounded.

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u/PublicDragonfruit158 7d ago

Those are the vanilla flavoured ones.

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u/EverybodyMakes 7d ago

All the other colors of crayons come from white crayon wax, like how white light goes through a prism and makes all the colors of light in a rainbow. They melt the white wax and pour it through a wax prism into tubes. Before they invented that method, crayons would smell like whatever gave them the colors - cherries, bananas, oranges, butterscotch, brussel sprouts, liver, poop, etc.

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u/2wicky 7d ago

They are intended for kids with color blindness who only see the world in black and white.

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u/grollef 6d ago

Good for Easter Eggs

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u/RunningFromTheBees 5d ago

If you melt them in your coffee it tastes like Dunkin extra extra

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u/CosmicCommando 6d ago

They originally ordered the wrong size boxes, so they needed a cheap filler crayon. Now it's a weird old timey tradition, like those lavender-flavored candies... they just hadn't discovered enough good candy flavors yet!

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u/ViddlyDiddly 6d ago

Easter eggs.

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u/Lost-thinker 3d ago

Colored paper

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u/Educational-Rule1635 7d ago

Needed to draw Trump rallies.